From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Options
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:11:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnllfjbt.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ma5c1v$7e5$1@dont-email.me>
On 2015-01-26, at 13:30, Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a brand new emacs installation in my new Kubuntu
> system, and I want to change a couple of things, but
> can't work out how.
>
> I would like to change the length of the lines to
> more characters; and I would like to change the
> highlighting colour to yellow instead of white as it is.
>
> How do I do these things, and make them permanent? I can
> of course drag the emacs window wider but that has to be
> done every time.
>
> Thanks for any help here.
Welcome to Emacs!
Try M-x customize. If you don't know what `M-x' means, try the built-in
tutorial (it's somewhere in the menu and AFAIR on the splash screen -
I have both disabled;-)).
Also, you might want to look at the Emacs Wiki
http://www.emacswiki.org/, the Emacs.SE http://emacs.stackexchange.com/
and (last but not least) the built-in Emacs manual (C-h r).
Also - for starters - Mastering Emacs http://www.masteringemacs.org/
from Mickey Petersen and Sacha Chua's site http://sachachua.com are
valuable resources.
Hth,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
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2015-01-26 12:30 Options Dieter Britz
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2015-01-27 2:55 ` Options Rusi
2015-01-27 23:52 ` Options Robert Thorpe
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